The Vallecano Ray faces this day a key game for the permanence against Granadaa direct rival for salvation and against whom victory is only worth it to stop a bad run of results that has led to concern with the still latent memory of the ‘Tamudazo‘ in the campaign 2011/2012.
That season, Rayo reached matchday 28 with 37 points, closer to Europe than relegation, which they saw at 13 points, but a bad run of results meant that permanence was played in Vallecas the last day against him Granada. A goal from Raúl Tamudo in the last minute of added time gave the Madrid team an agonizing salvation.
This year, so far in 2022, Rayo has played ten League games, only three goals scored and has added two points out of thirty possible. In this way, the Madrid team has gone from finishing 2021 in European positions and seeing the decline to fifteen points, to be placed thirteenth and only six from the danger zone.
The Granada is four points below Rayo, so a victory for the Nasrid team would sow even more doubts in the Madrid team, which has a demanding schedule ahead of it.
In Vallecas they will host Valencia, Real Sociedad, Villarreal and Levante, while as a visitor they will play, in addition to Granada, against Alavés, Espanyol, Barcelona, Getafe and Mallorca.
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